New York Just Launched 3 New Scratch-Offs — Including a $20 Game With Four $5,000,000 Top Prizes

NEW YORK — The New York Lottery put three brand-new scratch-off games on shelves today, July 7, 2026: Millionaire Riches ($20), Hot Dog! ($5) and Diamond Cashword ($3). Between them, the three games add four $5,000,000 jackpots, three $500,000 prizes and five $60,000 prizes to the state's scratch-off board — all of them still unclaimed, because nobody has scratched a single ticket yet.

Our system picked up all three games in this morning's data refresh, and we are already scoring them against the other 64 active New York scratch-off games. Here is everything in the official prize structures — and an honest, data-driven read on whether any of them deserve your money on day one.

Millionaire Riches ($20) — the headliner

Millionaire Riches (game #1700) is the biggest of the three by every measure. The $20 game launches with four $5,000,000 top prizes, advertised as $250,000-a-year annual installments, plus a deep mid-tier board: 25 prizes of $20,000, 45 prizes of $10,000, and more than 300 prizes of $4,000.

• Ticket price: $20
• Top prize: $5,000,000 (as $250K annual installments) — 4 at launch, all unclaimed
• Overall odds: 1 in 3.76 — better than the $20-tier average
• Top-prize odds: about 1 in 4.58 million
• Print run: about 18.3 million tickets
• Total prize pool: roughly $268 million — a 73.2% payout rate, a shade above the 72.4% average across New York's twelve $20 games

On paper, Millionaire Riches is a solidly built $20 game: above-average odds for the tier, above-average payout, and four jackpots instead of the two or three many $20 games launch with. And don't let the "$250K Annual Installments" label put you off — like other New York installment prizes, a winner can choose a one-time lump-sum cash payment instead of the yearly checks. The advertised $5,000,000 assumes the full installment schedule; the lump-sum option is a smaller present-value amount, and which is better is a question for your accountant, not your bodega clerk.

Hot Dog! ($5) — the summer novelty

Hot Dog! (game #1701) is a summer-themed $5 game with three $500,000 top prizes and a short print run of about 6.9 million tickets — the smallest of the three launches. Small print runs cut both ways: the game will burn through its lifecycle faster, and each unsold ticket carries relatively more top-prize exposure (about 1 in 2.3 million at launch).

• Ticket price: $5
• Top prize: $500,000 — 3 at launch, all unclaimed
• Overall odds: 1 in 4.45
• Print run: about 6.9 million tickets
• Payout rate: 64.9% — right at the 64.8% average for New York's nine $5 games

Worth knowing: below the $500,000 jackpots, the next prize is $2,000 (40 of them), then the board drops to $500. That is a thin middle. Hot Dog! is built as a high-frequency, small-prize game — about one in four and a half tickets wins something, but most wins are $50-$150.

Diamond Cashword ($3) — for the crossword crowd

Diamond Cashword (game #1702) is the latest edition of New York's long-running Cashword franchise, priced at $3 with five $60,000 top prizes and a 30X multiplier feature. It gets a big print run — about 17.1 million tickets, nearly the size of Millionaire Riches' run at a fraction of the price point.

• Ticket price: $3
• Top prize: $60,000 — 5 at launch, all unclaimed
• Overall odds: 1 in 4.06
• Print run: about 17.1 million tickets
• Payout rate: 63.0% — above the 61.3% average for the six active $3 games

Cashword players buy these for the extended play — a crossword grid takes minutes to work through instead of seconds — and Diamond Cashword delivers the standard formula with slightly better-than-tier-average payout. Just be clear-eyed: at $3, the top prize is $60,000, not a life-changer, and the odds of hitting one are about 1 in 3.4 million.

How the three games compare

The pattern is the same one we see in every launch wave: the more you pay, the more of your dollar comes back as prizes. Millionaire Riches returns about 73 cents of every dollar wagered across its print run; Diamond Cashword returns about 63. That is not a knock on the cheaper games — it is just how scratch-off economics work in New York, and it is why we score games against their own price tier rather than across tiers.

What our Smart Score says on day one

Every day we re-score all active New York scratch-off games on remaining value — prizes still on the board relative to tickets still unsold. Brand-new games start from their printed structure with zero sales history, so launch-day scores are a read on the blueprint, not on momentum:

We will be straight with you: none of the three launches at the top of our board today. That is normal, and it is worth understanding why. A new game's printed payout rate is fixed, but our score also weighs what is currently on the board across the whole field — and right now several older games are carrying unusually rich remaining value. Among $20 games, Bonus 100X (Smart Score 93.8) and $5,000,000 Blitz (90.8) both have surviving jackpots concentrated in shrinking print runs, which is exactly the situation a value model rewards.

When will these games show up in stores?

Launch day does not mean every store has them. New games reach New York's 15,000-plus lottery retailers over roughly one to two weeks as distributors work through their delivery routes — big-volume stores and chains typically rack new games first. If your corner store does not have Millionaire Riches yet, that is normal; check back in a few days or use our store finder to locate high-volume retailers near you. Our fresh packs tracker will start flagging stores activating new packs of all three games as sales data comes in.

What to take away as a player

1. All top prizes are live. Four $5M, three $500K and five $60K prizes are all unclaimed as of today — the only day of a game's life when that is guaranteed.
2. Millionaire Riches is the strongest blueprint of the three. Above-tier-average payout and odds, four jackpots. If you were going to try one of the new games, that is the one our data favors.
3. But older games currently beat all three on value. Check the live rankings before you buy — today's board has $20 games scoring 40+ points higher than Millionaire Riches' launch score.
4. Watch the first two weeks. Early claim patterns move our scores fast. A big early claim can gut a new game's value; a quiet start does the opposite.
5. Play within your means. Every scratch-off has a house edge — 27 cents per dollar on the best of these three, 37 on the cheapest. Treat it as entertainment, never as income.

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For entertainment and informational purposes only. Please play responsibly. If gambling is a problem for you or someone you know, call the New York Problem Gambling HOPEline at 1-877-846-7369.